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"Carleton Chase Murdock (Cooperstown, N.Y. July 29, 1884 – Ithaca, N.Y. June 5, 1971) was an American physicist, teaching and researching primarily at Cornell University. He served as Dean of University Faculty from 1945 to 1951. Within the field of physics, he was known for research in the field of crystal structures and X-ray diffractions.Prof. Murdock Retiring From Cornell Staff; Cooperstown Native; A Teacher 43 Years, Otsego Farmer (Cooperstown, N.Y.)(May 16, 1952) at 5. During academic year 1926-27, Murdock also conducted research at the Royal Institute’s Davy-Faraday Laboratory in London, England. Early Education & Career Murdock graduated from secondary schooling at Cooperstown High School in 1902. Proceeding to Colgate University, he took his bachelor's degree in 1907. From Colgate he proceeded to the University of Maine at Orono, Maine where he served an assistant instructor in Physics. Murdock was brought to Cornell by Physics Department Chairman and Dean of Graduate Studies, Ernest Merritt, to undertake post-doctoral studies in 1908.The Richfield Mercury (Cooperstown, N.Y.)(Oct. 1, 1908) at 1. Starting as an assistant instructor, he was appointed physics instructor in three weeks time. Murdock completed both his masters’ and doctoral work by 1919, at which time he was made a Cornell assistant professor. He was elevated to full professor in 1932. Professor Murdock is “remembered as the personification of the legendary professor, a man whose very presence created an atmosphere of dignity and humanity, of intellect and service.”Cornell University, The Deanship of University Faculty, List of Deans Pedagogy & Research Professor Murdock systematically graded each examination for a student’s successes, marking each paper three separate times, from three different viewpoints. This allowed both Murdock and the Cornell student to understand exactly what the student had mastered and where the student’s failings lay. To formal physics course work, Professor Murdock also added lessons in intellectual integrity and human courtesy.Cornell Faculty, Memorial Statement. From the 1928 to 1935, Professor Murdock also led an innovative advanced laboratory for Cornell seniors and graduate students. The subject material included research experiments in areas of emerging or unsettled importance within the field of physics. Each student designed his own experiment (usually to highlight some important physical principle), chose the equipment needed, and fabricated some of the necessary components. In the field of teaching physics, this practical approach became known as “Murdock’s Lab.” In this pedagogical setting, Professor Murdock encouraged high performance and instilled enthusiasm for understanding physics. The Lab he created continued in this manner through the academic year 1955-56, twenty years after he had moved to other assignments at Cornell.Memorial Statement. As a researcher, Murdock undertook early studies of photoelectric reactions and soon focused on new developments in X-ray physics and, in particular, by the use of X-rays in deducing the structure of crystals. His enthusiasm focused on the complicated task of computing, from subtle aberrations in X-ray diffraction patterns, the extent of imperfections in crystals and the size and shape of crystals far too small to be seen under the microscope of his day. This is what eventually led him to pioneer the application of computers to Cornell research by working with Caltech’s Linus Pauling. Such studies comprised the bulk of his extensive research career in the last two decades before retirement.Letter from Linus Pauling to Carleton C. Murdock (Dec. 24, 1941). He also directed his students toward applied sciences. The doctoral thesis of an early graduate student, published in the first issue of the Journal of Applied Physics, is now a classical work in the literature of the field of soil physics.Cornell Faculty, Memorial Statement. Dean of University Faculty, Cornell University The Cornell Faculty memorialized Murdock as “ . . . the personification of the legendary professor, a man whose very presence created an atmosphere of dignity and humanity, of intellect and service. He was first a teacher of physics but no less an inspiring colleague. His own care and rigor induced care and rigor in students and colleagues alike.”Cornell University Faculty, Carleton C. Murdock, Memorial Statement. Murdock was elected Dean of the University Faculty in 1945. He “brought to the office an unfailing dignity and courtesy, together with strength and wisdom, during a time of difficulty for the University. Following the end of World War II, a surge in enrollments occurred, but so did inflation that eroded the value of Faculty salaries and impaired Faculty morale. The emergence of McCarthyism deeply unsettled the campus.” Cornell University, The Deanship of University Faculty, List of Deans President Edmund Ezra Day’s retirement left Cornell University with an absence of leadership. Dean Murdock “gave stability to a shaken faculty, and his term was extended until a new president had been installed . . . .”Id. Family life Murdock was native to Cooperstown, New York.Dr. Murdock Dies; Retired Faculty Dean at Cornell, The Otsego Farmer (Cooperstown, N.Y.)(June 10, 1971 at 5. He was the son of Myrtle (Chase) Murdock and Benjamin F. Murdock, a dry goods merchant.Locals, The Glimmerglass (Cooperstown, N.Y.) at 3. Carleton Murdock was married to fellow Cornellian Dorothy Lee Waugh on August 28, 1923. Dorothy Lee Waugh graduated from Northwestern University in 1917 and removed to Ithaca, New York where she took a masters from Cornell in 1923. She taught physics as Vassar College prior to returning to Ithaca.Mrs. Carleton Murdock, Otsego Farmer (Sept. 19, 1963) at 4. Professor Murdock retired to the position of Professor Emeritus in 1953. He visited Cooperstown regularly throughout his life, and maintained the family lake cottage on Lake Otsego. He and Mrs. Murdock lived at 319 Wait Avenue in Ithaca, New York. As a young instructor, Murdock lived at 804 E. Seneca Street, before that neighborhood transitioned completely to student rental housing. He is interred at Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown. Professor and Mrs. Murdock had two sons, the Reverend Frank W. Murdock of Storrs, Connecticut and Edmund L. Murdock of Reston, Virginia. Associations Profess Murdock was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Crystallographic Association, American Physical Society (Fellow), American Society of Physics Teachers, American Society for X-Ray and Electron Diffraction, Optical Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Psi (serving as Faculty advisor to its Cornell Chapter), Sigma Xi (serving on its national executive committee, 1943–48), Gamma Alpha (serving as President), and the New York Academy of Sciences. Sample Publications * Carleton C. Murdock & Dorothy Waugh Murdock, The effect of series resistance on the current from a photo-active cell containing a fluorescent electrolyte, Transactions of the Faraday Society (1927) at 593-600. * Carleton C. Murdock, The Location of Electromotive Force in a Photo-Active Cell Containing a Fluorescent Electrolyte, Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences (12:8)(1926) at 504-508. * Carleton C. Murdock, The Form of the X-Ray Diffraction for Regular Crystals of Colloidal Size, Physical Review (35:1)(Jan. 1930) at 8-23. * Carleton C. Murdock, The Location of Electromotive Force in a Photo-Active Cell Containing a Fluorescent Electrolyte, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (12:8)(Aug. 1926) at 504-8. References External links *Carleton C. Murdock 1945-1952, Cornell University Category:20th-century American physicists Category:Cornell University faculty Category:Colgate University alumni Category:University of Maine faculty Category:People from Cooperstown, New York Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society Category:1884 births Category:1971 deaths Category:Scientists from New York (state) "
"Robert Shippen D.D. FRS (1675–1745) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford. Shippen was the brother of the Tory politician WIlliam Shippen. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. He matriculated at Merton College on 6 April 1693 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1696. Shippen acted as a tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford was awarded a Master of Arts degree on 4 July 1699. He was then elected a Fellow of Brasenose College. He was elected Professor of Music at Gresham College in London on 4 December 1705 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. He benefited from the living of St Stephen's, Limehouse. Shippen was elected Principal (head) of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1710 and attained a Doctor of Divinity. He held the post of Principal of Brasenose until his death in 1745. During his time as President of Brasenose College, Shippen was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1718 until 1723. In 1710, the same year he became Principal of Brasenose, he married Frances (died 1728), daughter of Richard Legh of Lyme Park, and widow of Sir Gilbert Clerke of Chilcote. Following this, on 3 October 1710 he resigned his professorship at Gresham College in favour of his elder brother, Edward Shippen (1671–1724), who had graduated from Brasenose with an M.A. in 1693, and M.D. in 1699. Robert Shippen was buried in the chapel at Brasenose College, where he is commemorated with an epitaph (by Dr Frewin) and a bust. References Category:1675 births Category:1745 deaths Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Category:Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Category:Professors of Gresham College Category:Principals of Brasenose College, Oxford Category:Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford Category:Fellows of the Royal Society "
"Memo motion or spaced-shot photography is a tool of time and motion study that analyzes long operations by using a camera. It was developed 1946 by Marvin E. Mundel at Purdue University, who was first to save film material while planning studies on kitchen work. Mundel published the method in 1947 with several studies in his textbook Systematic Motion and time study.Mundel, Marvin Everett: Systematic Motion and time study : improving productivity. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1946. The book became a standard und was published by David Danner (ed.) as Motion and time study : improving productivity. in 7th ed. 1994 with . A study showed the following advantages of Memo-Motion in regard to other forms of time and motion study:Norbury, Clifford J.: The Application of Memo-Motion to Industrial Operations. Cranfield : College of Aeronautics, 1954. #Single operator repetition work ... #Aerea studies, the study of a group of men or machines. #Team studies. #Utilisation studies. #Work measurement. As a versatile tool of work study it was used in the US to some extent, but rarely in Europe and other industrial countries mainly because of difficulties procuring the required cameras. Today Memo-Motion could have a comeback because more and more workplaces have conditions which it can explore. References Category:Time and motion study Category:Industrial equipment "